Problems Installing Microsoft 2 btn + wheel PS/2 Intellimouse

natethebate · 07-20-2002, 01:21 PM

I've had problems getting my mouse to work properly with my new install of Mandrake 8.2 The mouse is a Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2, and my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file looks like the following:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

/dev/mouse points to /dev/psaux
I also have tried Auto, Microsoft, Intellimouse, and PS/2 as my protocols. Some of these protocols made the mouse jump and unusable. The others would have no effect except to make the mouse unmovable and unusable. I also tried adding the line: Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
but that didn't work either.

At first my mouse didn't work under the console, so I was able to use gpm to resolve that. The only way I can get my mouse to work properly in X is to bootup, then switch to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), and then switch back to XWindows (Ctrl+Alt+F7). From there, the mouse will work properly, and the mouse will continue to work under any desktop manager. If I do not go to a console first, then my mouse will stay unusable after going to a desktop manager, such as WindowMaker, KDE, etc.

I know X is using /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (I started up a bare
session, and I looked at its output after redirecting to a tmp file).

I would like to use my mouse without having to go to a console first and back to X, so does anyone have a suggestion?
I appreciate the help,
Nate

bax · 07-20-2002, 02:56 PM

Is it optical?

natethebate · 07-20-2002, 07:46 PM

No, it is not optical. The mouse came with my Dell Dimension 4100.

MasterC · 07-21-2002, 02:01 AM

When you switch to the console do you have to login, or is it simply switch and switch back and it works?

Half_Elf · 07-21-2002, 02:34 AM

Herm, I'm really not sure about this, but maybe it's a gpm problem? Gpm can cause trouble with X sometime.
What's your distribution? In Slackware, read the file /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm, it suggest you a solution (using gpm as a repeater) try to locate a file named "something gpm" in your init directory.

the command in slack is "gpm -R msc -m /dev/mouse ps2" but I don't know if it's the same in other distro.
Better to try find the file :P

natethebate · 07-21-2002, 09:07 AM

I don't have to log in when I switch back to X. By switching back to X from the console, the mouse then works. I have used gpm already to get the mouse working properly under the console. I was under the understanding gpm was only for control of the mouse in the console? I will go ahead and try using it again and see what happens.

natethebate · 07-21-2002, 05:41 PM

I tried fooling around with gpm again, and gpm didn't like the repeating option. gpm seems to only work with the protocol exps2 (gpm -t exps2 -m /dev/mouse), but the closest I can get X to work was with IMPS/2 (switching from console to X).

I messed with my /etc/sysconfig/mouse file, and it looks like this right now (what it was before):

MOUSETYPE=exps2
XMOUSETYPE=IMPS/2
FULLNAME="PS/2|Generic PS2 Wheel Mouse"
XEMU3=no
WHEEL=yes
device=psaux

I also found the X logs, and they gave interesting errors:
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
No such device or address.
(WW) Mouse1: cannot open input device

But when I do an ls -l /dev/mouse, I can see it points to /dev/psaux.

I've been using google to find more on the error, but I haven't had any luck.

natethebate · 07-23-2002, 07:34 PM

In summary...

I got it to work, but I thought I had tried it before. So here is what I think had been happening. I bought an optical PS/2 mouse, and the same problem occurred. I also reinstalled, so I could install some things I had not gotten before. Nothing helped.

I then tried editing the .xinitrc file again, putting the line:

gpm -k

before an X session was began (this kills executing gpm process). At the end of the file, I put:

gpm -t exps2 -m /dev/mouse

so that gpm would function correctly when exiting X. This solved the problem (I thought I had tried this already, but apparently I hadn't). I believe that gpm was interfering with X, since exps2 is different than X's IMPS/2 protocol (gpm's equivalent to X's IMPS/2 is imps2).

Everything is working now. I hope this helps someone out there.

nate

jetblackz · 07-24-2002, 08:57 PM

FWIW, Mandrake install jumps your mouse. The user has to move the mouse, scroll wheel & click all buttons a while before Mandrake recognizes it.

It doesn't happen to other distro installs.